3 conduits appeal order to pay for investigation

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http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061019/NEWS02/610190413

A trio of Republican women are fighting part of the punishment they got for accepting coin dealer Tom Noe's money in 2003 to attend a $2,000-a-plate fund-raiser for President Bush.

Lucas County Commissioner Maggie Thurber, Toledo City Councilman Betty Shultz, and Donna Owens, a former Toledo mayor, have appealed a judge's order that they pay the cost for the investigation into their violation of Ohio ethics laws.

They and Sally Perz, a former state representative, were convicted and sentenced in Toledo Municipal Court in June on misdemeanor charges for failing to file state ethics forms disclosing as gifts money that Noe had given them, which then was donated illegally to the Bush campaign.

As part of their punishment, Judge Mark Reddin of Bowling Green said they each will have to pay $4,125 for their share of the $16,499 incurred by the state ethics commission to conduct the investigation.

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1. Excellent! There has to be a price to be paid for election fraud.

Democratic taxpayers shouldn't have to pay....maybe they can forward to Ken Mehlman.

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2. They don't feel poet justice,

but that economic justice is a real pain in the ass.